General Philosophy

I had this thought which bugs me: "If absolutely nothing existed, reality wouldn't exist either. Therefore, absolute nothingness cannot be real. And thus, something has to exist." Thoughts? Can it stand as a logical statement? Why do you think there might be something instead of nothing?

This may (or may not be ) be an an unspoken aim of both philosophy and science . But I it may be clear that this is impossible in both areas of thought. It has occurred to me (without much foundation or consideration ,admittedly) that this negative "finding " could perhaps be used as a basic assumption in science. I wonder ,if it was taken up as a basic assumption whether any concrete findings would follow on from it... Does the fact that we cannot abstract ourselves from the world we are in ,even as a thought experiment tell us something about the physical nature of the world we are part of ? Do physical …

Hey guys, I imagine a world without money. In this world you have the right to have whatever you want in a certain limit. For example, you have the right to have something to have breakfast but you have a list of combinations you have to choose from. In return, you have to do your mission too. What do you think? Is it a better world? Is it possible? WHY? If you have any question about the world you are free to ask

Immanuel Kant in ''Critique of Pure Reason'' (1781) wanted to defend a priori knowledge of the world, that is mathematics, theoretical physics and metaphysics. If you are familiar with history of philosophy, Kant reacted to the famous debate between Rationalists (Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza) and Empiricists (Locke and especially David Hume). Rationalists claimed that the source of knowledge is reason and innate ideas, while empiricists claimed that the source of knowledge is experience through the senses. Both are right from their perspective. Kant said that to speak about innate ideas in our mind which ground mathematics,physics and metaphysics (a priori knowledge) as ra…

Philosophical interpretation of and action with meaning.

Yin yang reverse order concept The concept behind the envisioned yin yang concept conversion of opposite dualities should be well known. But I will tackle the not so obvious and difficult to fathom. Male yang converts to female yin. This has already been done by cloning with male dna converting the chromosome to create a female version with the same genes. Old yang converts to young yin. It is obvious how young yin converts to old yang. The reverse conversion is also made possible in the Quantum fourth dimension where the old becomes young again thus adhering to the yin yang conversion process. Here is a hard one to tackle, how does yang infinite convert to yi…

Roko's Basilisk is a famous thought experiment that supposes that, if sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence in the future is designed for the sole purpose of optimization, where it's powerful mind uses all of its power to determine the most effective way to optimize human output for our benefit, it may turn on all people who decided not to assist in its creation. Imagine that this intelligence has the power and sufficient knowledge of the universe to confidently predict every event that has ever occurred since the big bang, including all of human history and every thought any human has ever had. The intelligence would understand that itself is the greatest contrib…

Imagine an ant. It lives in a (relative to the ant) extremely large colony with lots of other ants. This is the whole universe according to the ant. The ant has no thinking brain or consciousness, and so is oblivious to the rest of the world. It can only see so far and is limited by its sight. It cannot see up into the sky and doesn't even know that whatever is 50 miles away exists. Not only can it get there and will it never get there - but it does not and cannot know that that part of the world exists. It doesn't even know the world exists as the world - a sphere in space - as it does not have the consciousness to know this or work this out, as previously mentioned. …

Is time absolute or relative According to general relativity, time is relative meaning people moving at different rates at different positions will experience different times which can be denoted by their time piece (watch). Here is my thought experiment: Imagine people playing soccer on a field, due to each players rate of motion and position, each will experience different times. Now I decide to videotape the game on my camcorder and later watch it on my television. On the home video each player’s time may still be relative to each other but to me as the observer they are all experiencing the same time according to my clock on the wall. This is the universal ti…

Good day! The following doubt is raising in my head recently. If time is infinite, does it follow that everything that can happen will indeed happen? If so, are we (as any living being) indeed immortal, in the sense that each living being has infinite chances of being born again?

That difference between these two differences can be defined like this: Consider two objects o1 and o2, if they share common property p, for which subtraction is well defined operation, then the quantitative difference between them with respect to property p is o1.p-o2.p, where the operands are values of property p of objects o1 and o2 respectively. If the property p is not common, that is, not defined for any of the two objects, then this condition can be defined as qualitative difference between them, another definition that can be introduced is that we can say that they are not instances of the same class. From that definition follows that in order to belong to the s…

Not long ago we had a long ill tempered thread about the meaning of the word electricity. Since this thread was closed I don't want to rake over old coals but I was reading some history and came across this snippet and thought it might be of interest to some.

So I was reading a forum post about characteristics of intelligence (linked below), and the member Sensei brought up a point that IQ isn't static. This got me thinking on how the tests measure IQ and why we have them in the first place. Because in my opinion, a level of intelligence is completely relative, since everyone acts and thinks differently, along with other factors brought up by Sensei. So how do they measure someone's IQ and what are the benefits of being labeled "intelligent" by a IQ test. There is also the fact that there are multiple IQ tests without a main one (I could be wrong about there not being a main one).

Some people would argue that the universe could not have come from nothing and a creator must have initiated the creation of the universe the planets, solar system etc. What are your thoughts on this ?

Just testing. This used to be uncontroversial : All knowledge is ultimately circular. Break any idea down long enough and you'll end up with ideas, like 'time', for which all definitions end up circular. Specifically concerning numbers : You can't escape the fact that trying to define what a number actually is begins and ends with the pragmatic observation that we, and other machines, are able to count. Logic and set theory, themselves based on self-evident, circular, concepts (try to define 'set') are circularly dependent on each other and even if you reduce everything to just manipulations of symbols you'll just end up with a machine that can count and perform…

how we can determinate if somebody is stupid or smart?

If we use John Rawl's concept of justice based on "A Theory of Justice" on the organisation/institution of Fair Trade, what would our results be? Would Rawls perceive Fair Trade as a fair/just organization because it helps the most disadvantaged people (the producers)? Which principles are represented and which are missing?

Table of Contents Introduction Concepts – Part 1 of 2: Basics Space Location Direction Energy Goal Time Concepts – Part 2 of 2: Understanding The Linear Space-Time Linear Space-Time Limitations of Linear Space-Time Prediction Time Travel Conclusion Introduction This is about understanding the linear space-time worldview or paradigm and why it is limited. It is partial correct, but not a complete one at that. …

The article that has had the greatest effect on my thinking about physics over the years is “Extended Mach Principle” by Professor Joe Rosen, then at Tel-Aviv University, Israel (AJP, Volume 49, March 1981, pp. 258-264). Of all the fundamental principles Professor Rosen addresses, these three stand out for me - The origin of all laws of physics lies with the universe as a whole. Every single physical property and behavior aspect of isolated systems is determined by the whole universe. If the rest of the universe is taken away leaving only an isolated system, all laws of physics will cease to hold for it, and even space and time will lose their me…

If you look carefully to the video, you will read the words " sens du mouvement" (direction of the movement). This "movement" is a "motion in time". It is represented as Time being a static dimension in which the objects are translating. It appears no different than a motion in space. The video also shows the imprint of the path. The question is if this imprint truly "exist" or not. IOW the question is whether objects constantly duplicate over time and thus "exist" in the past (and also the future) or if the object simply "moves through time" and exists in its own present only. If the imprint exists, then we have the Block Universe (B…

I want to share with you my hypothesis about spacetime, time and observers. What do you think about my following hypothesis: Reality, in itself, without observers, is a manifold, a 4D-object. Spacetime is this 4D-object, which is not directly observable/measurable, but only deducable. Spacetime is therefore, in my opinion, a Platonic entity, very real, even more 'real' then our relativistic observations of time and space, but pure abstract to us, and mathematical to us. We can’t observe it directly. So, the mathematicians and theoretical physisists should like this idea that reality n itself, without minds to perceive/measure it, is only pure mathemat…

I think we are all shaped by the social norms we grew up in, I believe this programes our beliefs and behaviors. Do you think it would be possible to reverse engineer a specific social norm and then create an algorithum. That can be used to predict human behavior ?.

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Data is a valuable resource, often even referred to as the world's most valuable one. With law like GDPR in Europe and HIPAA in America, there is already some platform for data ownership. An emerging topic in American culture, a decade old topic in American health IT, is highly debated. Many patient advocates say it would be a solution to interoperability issues. Many tech companies such as EHR vendors claim the data belongs to them. Do you think data ownership is good or bad? If we lived in a society where you own all your information as property and earn a profit or control the sales of when EHR vendors sell your de-identified medical records, for Google to …

I have a framework for a theory of everything that is worthy of discussion except the moderators keep shutting it down. They say there is no evidence for it but there is, its just that the discussion is usually stopped before it gets there. I do not think our current scientists are stupid but their philopsophy is no where near the level of their mathematics, their philosophy is poor. Its all good and well trumpeting our successes, looking over our vast and comprehensive knowledge and being proud, but there are some problems with physics, things it doesn't explain. This is what is most interesting, these unknowns. But there is a problem with that, if physicsts are any…